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F R A G M E N T S  /  M O S A I C   O F   M E M O R Y

Some places invite us to stop for a while, to look around, to touch ragged old walls. These places awaken our memories. We can just stay still and listen to the past. My works from the series “Mosaico” are fragments of walls with tiles, cracks, patina and layers of time. The walls remember. Our memory is built from small bricks, covered with many layers of our subjective perception of reality. Some bricks are absent from the canvas – it is the area of forgetting. “Bricks” are made from triangular and rectangular pieces, cut by a knife from a big sheet of a cardboard. The process of cutting was very slow, automatic, so the mind was open for walk-in thoughts, images and memories, and the process itself was the place of memory. The color of the works is still changing, it is getting warmer and the works are acquiring more distinctive traces of time.

L O S T  A N D  F O U N D

Untitled paintings from the past. Author is unknown. Painting on painting – upcycling process in art itself, continuity of forgotten and its renascence. Now one has to read between lines to descry lost portraits and landscapes from the past under the dust of white patterns.
Lost and found anticipation of snow in the mountains
oil on found painting
65x45 cm

F R A G M E N T S  / ​
​S H U T T E R   O B S E S S I O N

​Authentic fragments and details of architectural environment
M E M E N T O    V I V E R E
Five paper-litho prints with five most common regrets of the dying. An Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies. Ware writes of the phenomenal clarity of vision that people gain at the end of their lives, and how we might learn from their wisdom.  Two bigger prints are Latin phrases: “Memento Vivere”, which means “Remember to live” and “Memento Mori” - “Remember, that you will die”.
Memento Vivere
paper lithography
30 x 42 cm
P E R   A S P E R A   A D   A S T R A  / A   F E A R   O F   B A N A L 

Meditative painting with a repetitive phrase in Latin. 
"Per aspera ad astra". The phrase itself is a cliche one and by repeating it, painting it over and repeating again I was trying to fight my fear of banality and anger/anguish of being in a creative block.
Picture
​pen, marker and oil on mdf, 100x70 cm
T E A T I M E 
​/ stories about someone who likes tea /
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story #1
Vasily & Antonina

​It is a story about a guy Vasily, who wanted to get married. He met a nice girl Antonina and saved some money for a nice suit for him and a nice bridal veil for her. There are also some weird guests at the party: Lemon-grandfather, Pumpkin-grandmother, a businesslike friend-Polkadot and a giddy friend-Pinapple.


story #2
​​Elizabeth & Mariana

This story is about English Queen, Elizabeth I, who loved puffy dresses-cakes, but more of that she loved her own portraits in those cakes. Another famous person, Mariana of Austria didn't mind puffy outfits either. And tea, of course.
​U S U A L   T H I N G S
Simple things as surprising things, beauty in everyday objects: a leaf, a plant, a piece of meat, a bottle from a fleamarket, pottery on someone's balcony, bones in a museum, usual things, random things - everything that makes you skip a beat is precious and complete. Shapes contains many others shapes: human bodyparts or whatever you want it to be.
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B L A C K & G R E Y
I N V I S I B L E   C I T I E S

Drawings, ink on paper
B L U E   B I R D S

​Block print on paper, hand-printed
A R T   W A L L

A dialog between artists, public space and spectators. For the project period, public spaces such as shopping malls or cafes became artists shared studios. Artists worked in the “open space” with wall-size paintings and drawings and were observed by passers-by, who could follow a creative process day-by-day from the very beginning till ready work. The project took place in Uppsala, Sweden in 2015.